Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Kern River near Kernville showing intake of Pacific Light and Power Co. for Borel Powerhouse; gauging bridge at Pacific Light & Power powerhouse site; Kern River No. 1 site including Edison Electric Company power plant 1, penstock site for Pacific Light and Power Co, site for Edison Electric penstock and diversion, location of Edison Electric tunnels, tunnel "Upper 18," and Democrat Springs gauging station.
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Manuscripts
This series contains records documenting Southern California Edison's predecessor companies. The series in divided into eighteen subseries: the Bishop Light and Power Company; the California Electric Power Company; the Edison Electric Company; the Imperial Ice and Development Company; the Kern River Company; the Mountain Power Company; the Mount Whitney Power and Electric Corporation; the Nevada-California Electric Corporation; the Nevada-California Power Company; the Nevada Power, Mining, and Milling Company; the Pacific Light and Power Company; the Redlands Gas Company; the Redlands Light and Power Company; the Rialto Light, Power, and Water Company; the San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Company; the Southern Sierras Power Company; the United Electric, Gas, and Power Company; and the Ventura County Power Company.
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Manuscripts
The Southern California Edison Records consist of materials created, maintained, and collected by the company. The Southern California Edison Records contain books, catalogs, correspondence, journals, ledgers, log books, meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, press releases, reports, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting the history of the Southern California Edison (SCE) Company. The records cover the years 1848 to 1989 with the bulk of the material ranging from 1911 to 1965. The material is largely textual with the exception of a few non-paper items scattered throughout.
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Borel Powerhouse on Kern River, including canals, flumes, construction camp near canal, work crew concreting canal walls and excavating canal path, interiors of powerhouse and switchboard.
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Kern River No. 1, including site for Democrat Dam; Dam construction and drainage tower; intake; dam spilling; Construction at Camp 4; Kern River Canyon, hospital, tunnel workers, tunnel portal, concrete mixing plant, concrete flume, tunnel automobiles; Camp 1, penstock construction, branch pipes, Powerhouse construction, machinery transport to site, assembly of units in powerhouse, placing "Y" piece, main water valve needle, exciter needle, impulse wheel and buckets, transformers, tailrace construction, original spillway, towers and erect insulators, transmission line; Tejon, Castaic and Fernando Substations, Los Angeles No. 3 Steam Plant.
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Manuscripts
This subseries documents the Nevada Power, Mining, and Milling Company, the predecessor company of the Nevada-California Electric Corporation, and is comprised of annual reports.
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